Preview release of the Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric now available

Hi, we are excited to announce the preview of the Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric. This Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure fabric resources that are running on Windows Azure.

Note that this is a completely new Management Pack that does not upgrade the previous Azure Management Pack. Note also that this Management Pack requires System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or later. This Management Pack is currently not supported in production environments.

The following monitoring scenarios are covered by the Management Pack

Monitoring scenario

Description

Associated rules and monitors

Role Instance Availability and Status

This scenario monitors the role instance health of each role instance as reported by Windows Azure

Windows Azure Role Instance Status Monitor

Role Instance Performance

This scenario monitors the CPU and Memory utilization of each role instance

Available Megabytes of Memory

Total CPU Utilization Percentage

Scale up/down

This scenario enables you to scale up or down the number of role instances per role, by using a task

Change number of role instances (task on the Role)

Virtual Machine Availability and Status

This scenario monitors the role instance health of each Virtual Machine instance as reported by Windows Azure

Virtual Machine Status Monitor

Storage Availability

This scenario monitors the availability of the Storage Account endpoint

Storage Account Availability Monitor

Storage Size

This scenario monitors the size of the storage account and optionally alerts if the size of the storage account is too large

Storage Account Size Monitor

Topology Dashboard

This scenario allows you to see how your monitored resources are related to each other

Topology dashboard

Service Vicinity dashboard

Certificate health

This scenario monitors certificate expiration of management and cloud service certificates and alerts if the certificates are about to expire

Windows Azure Subscription Certificate Expiration Monitor

Windows Azure Hosted Service Certificate Expiration Monitor

Hybrid Application definition and monitoring

This scenario allows you to model a hybrid application using a new Distributed Application template and track availability and capacity of the application using provided dashboards

Distributed Application template

Availability dashboard

Cloud Service capacity dashboard

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Shiva, if you watch the recording of the session I linked earlier ( channel9.msdn.com/…/AM-B306 ), Storage monitoring is shown: I start talking about this new Azure MP at around 00:12 minutes from the start, and I demo it as from 00:18 and at around 00:20 I show how you can add Cloud Services, VMs and Storage accounts to the "Windows Azure Monitoring" template so that monitoring gets enabled. At 00:25 I show monitor that looks for how much storage space is being used and the collection rule that collects the same metric.